1. Luthans and Doh (2018, pp. 129-148) describe three sets of cultural dimensions: Hofstede, Trompenaars, and the GLOBE project. In each of the same three countries (CHINA, BRAZIL, and KENYA) of operations as discussed in last week’s assignment, describe the impact of each of these sets of cultural dimensions on the company’s operations. (Hint, there should be discussion of nine country – dimensions set combinations.)
  2. Using the grid in Figure 5-1 (Luthans & Doh, 2018, p. 168) as a guide, create a similar matrix for the same three countries of your company’s operations. Select one country and discuss the implications of the factors identified on this grid for your company; in other words, how do these factors influence how they manage their people?

Each week’s assignment should be atleast 1000 words (approximately 3 to 6 pages) words long for the body of the material, which excludes title page, table of contents, exhibits or tables, and references. Please address all the required content for the specific assignment, including proper formatting, Title Page, Table of Contents, Introduction, Conclusion, References, Exhibits (if appropriate), and citations. Please note that you will not be able to find all the information you need for this assignment in the textbook. Additional research is required, expected, and part of your grade. Submitting more than 1000 words is acceptable if required to fully answer the questions in the assignment. My experience is that the questions cannot be completely answered in less than 500 words.

Due Week 10 and worth 300 points

Imagine that you are a senior consultant at Practical Health Care Consulting firm. Your supervisor has instructed you to spend three (3) months at the Caring Angel Hospital to help improve the quality of care, add value to the organization, improve employee morale, design an efficient organizational chart, create a strong team environment, and create the hospital’s competitive advantage. The hospital has traditionally made losses year after year. Furthermore, it is not performing well financially, and the banks are not willing to lend it large sums of money for more effective marketing.

After spending two (2) months within the hospital, you are very happy with your progress, and you think you are capable of acquiring more patient base and expanding the hospital market. However, with a closer look, you notice that your patients are still hopping from one specialized hospital to another in search of various specialized treatments. You also notice that the seats are not comfortable in the waiting area, and the patients continuously show up for appointments on the wrong dates. The nurses and the employees are not smiling during patient conversations, and everyone looks for ways to blame others for failures in the patient treatment process. Everyone seems to work alone and hide what they do from their colleagues.

At the end of the three (3) month period, you must provide a report with your recommended strategies designed to help Caring Angel Hospital achieve its goals.

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

  1. From a consulting perspective, propose the major steps that Caring Angel Hospital could take to achieve each of the following goals:
    1. Improve the quality of care
    2. Add value to the organization
    3. Improve employee morale
    4. Design an efficient organizational chart
    5. Create a strong team environment
    6. Create the hospital’s competitive edge.
  2. Recommend one (1) approach that the hospital could use for acquiring a larger market share given the prevailing financial circumstances. Justify your recommendation.
  3. Investigate at least two (2) value-added services that Caring Angel Hospital could offer to strengthen its value proposition. Provide at least two (2) examples of the advantages of these value-added services to the hospital.
  4. Use four (4) recent (within the last five [5] years) quality academic resources in this assignment.
    Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Propose methodologies that have been proven to increase value in health care delivery systems.
  • Examine leadership and management frameworks that are most applicable to a certain organization type within the health care industry.
  • Assess how politics in a health care organization motivates and demotivates employees, and recommend strategies to mitigate the challenges presented with each aspect.
  • Create a communication strategy to address an ethical dilemma within a health care organization regarding the quality of service and cost.
  • Craft a strategic plan that leads to a competitive advantage within a certain market.
  • Determine best practices for establishing and maintaining strategic alliances within the health care industry or enterprise.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health care management.
  • Write clearly and concisely about health care management using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

Click here to view the grading rubric.Due Week 10 and worth 300 points

Imagine that you are a senior consultant at Practical Health Care Consulting firm. Your supervisor has instructed you to spend three (3) months at the Caring Angel Hospital to help improve the quality of care, add value to the organization, improve employee morale, design an efficient organizational chart, create a strong team environment, and create the hospital’s competitive advantage. The hospital has traditionally made losses year after year. Furthermore, it is not performing well financially, and the banks are not willing to lend it large sums of money for more effective marketing.

After spending two (2) months within the hospital, you are very happy with your progress, and you think you are capable of acquiring more patient base and expanding the hospital market. However, with a closer look, you notice that your patients are still hopping from one specialized hospital to another in search of various specialized treatments. You also notice that the seats are not comfortable in the waiting area, and the patients continuously show up for appointments on the wrong dates. The nurses and the employees are not smiling during patient conversations, and everyone looks for ways to blame others for failures in the patient treatment process. Everyone seems to work alone and hide what they do from their colleagues.

At the end of the three (3) month period, you must provide a report with your recommended strategies designed to help Caring Angel Hospital achieve its goals.

Note: You may create and / or make all necessary assumptions needed for the completion of this assignment.

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

  1. From a consulting perspective, propose the major steps that Caring Angel Hospital could take to achieve each of the following goals:
    1. Improve the quality of care
    2. Add value to the organization
    3. Improve employee morale
    4. Design an efficient organizational chart
    5. Create a strong team environment
    6. Create the hospital’s competitive edge.
  2. Recommend one (1) approach that the hospital could use for acquiring a larger market share given the prevailing financial circumstances. Justify your recommendation.
  3. Investigate at least two (2) value-added services that Caring Angel Hospital could offer to strengthen its value proposition. Provide at least two (2) examples of the advantages of these value-added services to the hospital.
  4. Use four (4) recent (within the last five [5] years) quality academic resources in this assignment.
    Note: Wikipedia and other websites do not qualify as quality academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Propose methodologies that have been proven to increase value in health care delivery systems.
  • Examine leadership and management frameworks that are most applicable to a certain organization type within the health care industry.
  • Assess how politics in a health care organization motivates and demotivates employees, and recommend strategies to mitigate the challenges presented with each aspect.
  • Create a communication strategy to address an ethical dilemma within a health care organization regarding the quality of service and cost.
  • Craft a strategic plan that leads to a competitive advantage within a certain market.
  • Determine best practices for establishing and maintaining strategic alliances within the health care industry or enterprise.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in health care management.
  • Write clearly and concisely about health care management using proper writing mechanics.

Grading for this assignment will be based on answer quality, logic / organization of the paper, and language and writing skills, using the following rubric.

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Ethical Decision Making Paper Instructions

The purpose of this assignment is to develop the ability to apply professional values, codes of ethics, and a decision-making model to the process of ethical decision making.

Your paper must be in current APA format including title page, abstract and reference page. The body of your paper must be 6–9 pages and include at least 6 references. Your paper must be well-thought-out and demonstrate critical thinking.

  • Begin by reading through the entire document, “A Practitioner’s Guide to Ethical Decision Making.” This is necessary BEFORE you begin to apply the decision making steps to an ethical scenario.
  • After reading the ethical decision making document above, choose one of the ethical dilemmas from the document entitled, “Ethical Decision Making Paper Scenarios,” found under the assignment instructions in bb . Read and analyze the chosen scenario.
  • Approach the scenario as if it has already happened and now you must address the problems the scenario has created. In other words, as in much of real life and practice, you must now do damage control.
  • To apply the steps of the ethical decision making model to your chosen scenario, divide the body of your paper—formatted in current APA style—into the steps outlined in the “A Practioner’s Guide to Ethical Decision Making” document, and outlined below, making sure to address all questions for each section:
  • Identify the problem(s). In this section make sure to:
    • Outline the facts, separating out innuendos, assumptions, hypotheses, or suspicions.
    • Correctly and clearly identify the problem(s) by answering the questions, “Is this problem an ethical, legal, professional, or clinical problem? Is it a combination of more than one of these?”
    • Identify the problem as related to self, client, institution, or agency. In other words, answer the questions, “Is the issue related to me and what I am or am not doing? Is it related to a client and/or the client’s significant others and what they are or are not doing? Is it related to the institution or agency and their policies and procedures?”
  • Apply the ACA Code of Ethics. In this section make sure to:
    • Identify all applicable ACA Code of Ethics. Which codes apply, or can address, the problem(s) presented in the scenario? Make sure to cite the code numbers.
  • Determine the nature/dimensions of the dilemma. In this section make sure to:
    • Correctly identify the moral principles of the profession that apply. In other words, which of the professional values apply to this problem? Autonomy, beneficence, justice, nonmaleficence, fidelity, and/or veracity? Why?
    • Identify the relevant professional literature that applies to the dilemma. What does the professional literature say that might help you solve the problem? Go to the LUO databases and find articles or textbooks that address the problem. For example, what do experts say about the confidentiality, technology and counseling, etc.?
    • Identify persons that would be consulted. Who could you consult that might help you come up with ideas to address the problem?
    • Identify state or national professional associations that would be consulted. What professional associations or state boards might be able to give advice?
  • Potential courses of action. In this section make sure to:
    • List all potential courses of action. Brainstorm as many possible courses of action as possible.
  • Consider consequences/Determine course of action. In this section make sure to:
    • Describe the potential consequences and implications for each course of action.
    • Identify the best course of action and explain why. In other words, considering the information you have gathered and the priorities you have set, evaluate each option and assess the potential consequences for all the parties involved. Ponder the implications of each course of action for the client, for others who will be effected, and for yourself as a counselor. Eliminate the options that clearly do not give the desired results or cause even more problematic consequences. Review the remaining options to determine which option or combination of options best fits the situation and addresses the priorities you have identified.
  • Evaluate the selected course of action. In this section make sure to:
    • Review the selected course of action to see if it presents any new ethical problems.
    • Apply the tests of justice, publicity, and universality.
  • Implement the course of action. In this section make sure to:
    • Describe what steps will be taken to implement the course of action. In other words, step-by-step, what are you now going to do to address the problem and do damage control?

When you have completed your paper, save it as a Microsoft Word document under your name and assignment title (Example: Doe_J_Ethical_Minute_Paper). Submit it via the SafeAssign draft link in Module/Week 7 by Friday. Wait until the link indicates that SafeAssign has analyzed your paper and prepared a report.

Return to the safe assign report and evaluate the report. You will notice that SafeAssign often matches on headings, titles, and references. If you see matches on entire sentences or paragraphs that are not enclosed in quotation marks, then you have unintentionally plagiarized. You will need to go back and re-write those sections in your own words.

Submit your final assignment via SafeAssign and LiveText by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Sunday of Module/Week 7.

Submit Assignment: Fundraising in Your Community

This assignment will directly help you with the final assignment for the course. As you learned this week, your fundraising directly affects the economy in your community. Take a look at the community you currently live in and a high school in the area, preferably one that you are in a zone for. If you currently work at a high school, you may also choose that school. Please distinguish which you are using for the assignment.

Look at the demographics of the school and community. Determine how these directly or indirectly affect your school and its fundraising abilities. Analyze the economic impact fundraising has, not only on the community as a whole, but on families in your school. Are students participating in multiple sports that each requires a fee or fundraising? Evaluate each of these circumstances and determine if this has a positive or negative affect on fundraising within your school. Keep in mind that you may be in a situation where outside the box fundraising ideas are the only way to be successful. This is what fundraisers need to have as a mindset.

Your assignment should be at least three paragraphs and contain specific demographic from a high school.

Support your statements with evidence from the Required Studies and your research. Cite and reference your sources in APA style.

Background: As noted by Kirk (2016), working with data is one of the four stages of the visualization workflow. According to Kirk (2016), “A dataset is a collection of data values upon which a visualization is based.” In this course, we will be using datasets that have already been collected for us. Data can be collected by various collection techniques.

Reference: Kirk, Andy. Data Visualisation: A Handbook for Data Driven Design (p. 50). SAGE Publications.

Assignment: Summarize 3 data collection techniques (Interviews, Surveys, Observations, Focus Groups, etc.). Compare and contrast the 3 data collection techniques you selected. Lastly, what collection techniques do you prefer and why?

Your Assignment should be at least 3 pages (800 words), double-spaced, have at least 4 APA references, and typed in an easy-to-read font in MS Word (other word processors are fine to use but save it in MS Word format). Your cover page should contain the following: Title, Student’s name, University’s name, Course name, Course number, Professor’s name, and Date.

  1. Read the Notes to the Financial Statements (FS) for your SEC 10-K company.
  2. These “notes” are displayed after the financial statements.

Discussion Requirements

1. Answer all of the following questions and do NOT cut and paste from your company SEC report.

  • Note 1 includes accounting information. What is the fiscal year for your SEC 10-K Company? This may be June 30 each year, or it may be the Sunday closest to the last day of January, or some other description.
  • Inventory: How is Inventory described for your SEC 10-K company? LIFO, FIFO, and/or average cost? Relate your answer to topics in our course.
  • Income Statement: Is it a single-step or multi-step income statement?
  • Calculate the Gross Profit and the Gross Profit Percentage for this year and last year, creating a small table, such as the following:

This Year

Last Year

Net Sales

$1,200

$1,400

Cost of Goods Sold

800

1,200

Gross Profit

400

200

Gross Profit Percentage

33%

14%

In the example above, sales decreased, gross profit increased, and the gross profit percentage increased. Therefore, sales are more profitable. We made 33 cents of gross profit on every dollar of sales this year, but only 14 cents of gross profit on every dollar of sales last year. Sales decreased, but sales are actually generating more profit overall, both as an absolute dollar value and as a percentage.

2. Your description may be different, but these are comments you might make for this posting and in your SEC 10-K paper and project.

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There are three parts included in the this Attached Assignment:

  1. In 3.1, you read and summarized the short piece about the creatures (question 3). Now write a one-paragraph response to that same piece.
  2. You also summarized a piece of fiction that had an impact on you (question 4). Now write a one-paragraph response to the fiction text and context you summarized.
  3. Finally, write a one-paragraph explanation of the difference between summary and response.

Assignment 1.2: Conflicting Viewpoints Essay – Part II

Synthesizing and Writing
Due Week 5 and worth 100 points

When looking for information about a particular issue, how often do you try to resist biases toward your own point of view? This assignment asks you to engage in this aspect of critical thinking.

The assignment is divided into two (2) parts.
For Part I of the assignment (due Week 3), you read a book excerpt about critical thinking processes, reviewed the Procon.org Website in order to gather information, and engaged in prewriting to examine your thoughts.
* Remember that in the Week 2 Discussion, you examined the biases discussed in Chapter 2 of the webtext.

In Part II of the assignment (due Week 5), you will write a paper to synthesize your ideas.

Part II – Writing
Write at three to four (3-4) page paper in which you:

  1. State your position on the topic you selected for Assignment 1.1.
  2. Identify (3) three premises (reasons) from the Procon.org website that support your position and explain why you selected these specific reasons.
  3. Explain your answers to the “believing” questions about the three (3) premises opposing your position from the Procon.org website.
  4. Examine at least two (2) types of biases that you likely experienced as you evaluated the premises for and against your position.
  5. Discuss the effects of your own enculturation or group identification that may have influenced your biases.
  6. Discuss whether or not your thinking about the topic has changed after playing the “Believing Game,” even if your position on the issue has stayed the same.

The paper should follow guidelines for clear and organized writing:

  • Include an introductory paragraph and concluding paragraph.
  • Address main ideas in body paragraphs with a topic sentence and supporting sentences.
  • Adhere to standard rules of English grammar, punctuation, mechanics, and spelling.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • This course requires use of Strayer Writing Standards (SWS). The format is different than other Strayer University courses. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
  • Based on the guidelines in SWS, “A well-researched assignment has at least as many sources as pages.” Since this assignment requires you to write at least 3-4 pages, you should include at least 3-4 references.

My topic for my final paper is how athletes are using their platforms to protest against racial injustice, especially, law enforcement profiling and using excessive force against African Americans. The paper should talk about why, nfl player Colin Kaepernick, began to protest and the outcomes and backlash that came out of these protests. You need to use credible outside sources, you need to use at least one scholarly source, and Michael Bennett’s book “Things that make White People uncomfortable”

Michael Bennett’s book: https://books.google.com/books/about/Things_That_Make_White_People_Uncomforta.html?id=nvdIDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false